Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Coach of the Year
Greg Harris
SCHOOL Huntsville
THE SCOOP Harris has turned a once mediocre program in a conference contender in his three seasons as the head coach after coming over from Rogers Heritage where he was an assistant coach. … In Harris’ first season, Huntsville won 17 games. The past two seasons the Eagles have won 24 games each season. … The Eagles were close to punching a ticket to the state tournament with a narrow 2-1 lead against Dardanelle late in the 4A-North Regional opener but ran out of steam in the elimination loss. … Harris played collegiately at Ouachita Baptist University 1982-87. … He graduated from Haskell High School, which did not field a high school team. He played American Legion baseball in the summers. … Harris’ son Ty Harris signed and played at Arkansas but has since transferred to Alabama-Birmingham.
DID YOU KNOW Prior to taking over at Huntsville, Harris coached at a number of schools over a long career. He was an assistant under Kirk Bock at Bryant, he was the head coach at El Dorado for three seasons and also coached at Camden-Fairview and Hampton. QUOTABLE “One thing a lot of people don’t know is we graduated seven senior starters from last year, and the thing that tickled me the most is we just picked up right where we left off. We swept Pea Ridge, which we couldn’t remember the last time we even beat Pea Ridge. So I’m very proud of the season we had. Our kids have bought into our plan, and it’s just carried over all three years. So it’s a credit to the kids. Great parents, great kids, they just had to be developed. And that’s what they did; they bought into the plan,” Harris said.